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...hast seen Pull many a sprightly race Disporting on thy margent green, The paths of pleasure trace ; Who foremost now delight to cleave With pliant arm, thy glassy wave ? The captive linnet which enthral ? What idle progeny succeed To chase the rolling circle's speed OF ETON COLLEGE. 95 While some,...

...hast seen Full many a sprightly race, Disporting on thy margin green, The paths of pleasure trace : Who foremost now delight to cleave With pliant arm thy glassy wave? The captive linnet which enthral ? What idle progeny succeed, To chase the rolling circle's speed, Or urge the flying ball ?...

...foremost now delight to cleave, 25 With pliant arm, thy glassy wave ? The captive linnet which enthral?. What idle progeny succeed To chase the rolling circle's speed, Or urge the flying ball ? so While some on earnest business bent Their murm'ring labours ply 'Gainst graver hours that bring...

...pleasure trace ; The altar-tomb seen near the church, beside which two figures stand, covers the gvavc Who foremost now delight to cleave, With pliant arm,...shadows — shadows which are to the eye what echoes arc to the car — lying heavily upon the grass ! We passed too (though somewhat out of our road) '...

...hast seen Full many a sprightly race, Disporting on thy margent green, The paths of pleasure trace, Who foremost now delight to cleave, With pliant arm thy glassy wave ? The captive linnet which enthral ? What idle progeny succeed To chase the rolling circle's speed, - . Or urge the flying ball...

...thou hast seen Full many a sprightly race Desporting on thy margent green The paths of pleasure trace, Who foremost now delight to cleave With pliant arm thy glassy wave? I1 See HOMER 1 n 8. Cf C's con- epithets" in the Preface to Poems demnation of his own use of "double-...

...of complex effects: What passion cannot music raise and quell? When Jubal struck the chorded shell What idle progeny succeed To chase the rolling circle's speed, Or urge the flying ball? Thus Thomas Gray recalls boyhood games without having to use the low vernacular "hoop." Wordsworth,...

...thou hast seen Full many a sprightly race Disporting on thy margent green The paths of pleasure trace, Who foremost now delight to cleave With pliant arm thy glassy wave? (Thomas Gray, Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College) In the sweet shire of Cardigan, Not far from...